Tag: Roy Hibbert

March Madness rewind: Stephen Curry fuels Davidson’s comeback over Georgetown

Stephen Curry dropped 30 points on Roy Hibbert and the Georgetown Hoyas to advance Davidson into the 2008 Sweet 16.

With no NCAA Tournament brackets being busted this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Warriors Wire is highlighting notable March performances from current members on the Golden State roster.

Who doesn’t love a Cinderella story in March Madness? Long before he was winning Most Valuable Player awards and hanging championship banners in Oracle Arena, Stephen Curry played a key figure in one of the most memorable runs in NCAA Tournament history.

March 23, 2008

Coming off a thrilling victory against Gonzaga in the first round, Curry’s Davidson squad linked up with the second-seeded Georgetown Hoyas. With second-team All American Roy Hibbert returning for his senior season, the Hoyas were labeled as a favorite in 2008 after going to the Final Four in 2007.

However, the Big East regular-season champions ran into magic in the second round. Davidson fell down by 17 points to Georgetown, but it wasn’t enough to send Curry home.

After lighting up Gonzaga for 40 points, Curry missed 10 of his first 12 shots for the Wildcats. However, the future NBA All-Star nailed six of his final nine shots to score 25 of his 30 points in the second half. With the pressure on, Curry aced five of his six last free throws to seal the game for Davidson.

Despite limiting Curry early, the red hot shooter stunned John Thompson III’s Hoyas as Davidson danced into the Sweet 16.

Curry finished with 30 points on 8-of-21 shooting with five 3-pointers, five assists, three rebounds and three steals. Curry’s backcourt partner Jason Andrews added 20 points and five assists.

Next up, Davidson traveled to Detroit to face the Wisconsin Badgers in the Sweet 16.

Watch highlights from Davidson’s upset bid against Georgetown below.

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NBA fans keep making random retired basketball players trend on Twitter

People miss basketball so much that they’re talking about their favorite retired role players on Twitter.

If you’re like me and have just been scrolling through Twitter aimlessly over the last few days while we’re all social distancing because of the coronavirus, you’ve probably seen a number of random former NBA players on Twitter trending.

Today? It’s Steve Nash and Yao Ming. Yesterday, it was Roy Hibbert and Andre Miller. Tomorrow? Who knows. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of this. It’s just random retired dudes who played in the league ranging from All-Stars to role players.

If you click on Twitter’s trends menu, you’ll see all of the names right there. It’s really odd. When I saw this this morning, I thought it was 2011 or something.

I never thought I’d see the day that Steve Nash was trending with James Harden or Yao Ming. But here we are.

Why is this happening? Literally because people are bored out of their minds So bored, that they’d be willing to subject themselves to Roy Hibbert highlights on a Thursday afternoon with tweets like this.

Or Andre Miller highlights that, somehow, make him look like an All-Star. Now, to be fair, it was his birthday. But still!

With no NBA basketball being played right now, people are just running out of things to do while missing their favorite sport. So they’re talking about their favorite role players.

Some people think we’re going too far with things. That we might miss basketball a little too much.

I think they might be right. NBA Twitter is starting to get a little stir crazy. I mean, we’ve gotten to the point where we’re asking if Miller was properly rated.

We’re also asking who can complete alley-oop passes to who. Is this that bad? No. Do I want it gone because I got Hassan Whiteside throwing alley-oop passes to Isaiah Thomas? Maybe.

Hopefully, the game comes back soon and we can all regain our sanity. Because right now, with the pace we’re on, it’s only a matter of time before we see a “Smush Parker wasn’t that bad” tweet with flame emojis next to it.

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